Not Quite Dead Yet

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Director: HAMASAKI Shinji
2020, 93 minutes, OmeU, DCP

This science fiction comedy revolves around the topic of death in a bizarre way.

Nanase, a student, lives with her father Hakaru, who is the president of a pharmaceutical company and so obsessed with science that he neglected his wife even when she was dying. Nanase hates him for it and wishes him dead. She joins a death metal band and never wants to follow in her father's footsteps.

Hakaru suspects that the company is plotting against him and in order to expose the culprit, he takes a drug that will kill him for two days and then bring him back to life - or so the plan goes. But things go wrong and Hakaru's adversaries want to cremate his dead body prematurely. Will Nanase succeed in saving her father?

Movie series
It's better together!
New Japanese films

Nowadays, there are many forms of loneliness and being alone.

Some people deliberately withdraw from life in the community, others are suddenly alone due to external circumstances such as separation or bereavement and have to reorient themselves.

The series of eight films made between 2019 and 2022 approaches the topic from different perspectives that are not only thought-provoking but also entertaining. The series kicks off with a quirky science fiction comedy in which a young woman struggles with her hated father, whose body has just died for a short time, followed by a sensitive family drama about a single widower. In a cooking film, the seasons determine the emotional life of a single senior citizen and a visually stunning anime tells the adventure-fantasy story of a girl who is neglected by her mother. In another anime, an art student encounters heroes and demons in her deceased grandmother's house and in a refreshing feature film, a couple of friends who have problems at school realize a shared dream. The gloomy vision of an ageing society strikes a serious note. The series is rounded off with a literary adaptation about a lonely older woman who experiences a special kind of cheering up.

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